Question

B. F. Skinner, a leading behaviorist who explored operant conditioning, believed that inner, private states such as thinking and feeling existed and ____.

Answer 1

Answer:

viewed them as behaviors that followed the same rules as public behaviors

Explanation:

B. F. Skinner had so much interest in the impact of consequences on how often people performed a behavior. Skinner also went further to say that there was no benefits to psychology from any deliberation of internal mental or conscious states. Skinner rather believed that "inner, private states such as thinking and feeling existed", but he saw them as simply following same basic public behavior rules such as driving a car.